Ari Emanuel

I've started this new business called Mari, trying to make that into the next live nation there in music or build this new company, having learned, because I'm not a PE firm, but I'm a company, but I've learned all these different skill sets.

Because Silver Lake just wanted Endeavor to be an agency.

So he was, one, selling down the events and a bunch of other assets that we wanted to buy at TKO to pay down the debt.

And live is where I wanted to be.

So I was like, fuck it, I'll just raise a bunch of money.

And the good thing is, which I felt really good about, I actually did feel really good.

This crazy idea I had, people like saying, yeah, you're right.

So now I want to make them a lot of money, which I've done for a lot of people.

Now I'll make myself a lot more money.

Not that I care, but... But you want to be right.

No, but I want to be right.

It is a benchmark.

And these people should make a lot of money because I want them to.

That's the most exciting thing.

Well, you know, I have a very specific area of art I collect.

I collect African-American artists, mainly American, but now Africa and other places, from about 1940 to now.

I don't know.

It just spoke to me.

I have no idea why.

So it was from Sam Gilliam, Bob Thompson, to Kara Walker, Mark Bradford, to Noah Davis.